C5: Non-Traditional Model Uses 

Date and Time: Tuesday, August 30, 2022: 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: North Star
Moderator: Henry Brown, University of Missouri

SESSION DESCRIPTION AND AGENDA

Strategic Modeling Tools to Initiate the LRTP Process

Jonathan Slason

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Leveraging Transferrable Bid-Rent Functions to Forecast Land Use in a Small Kansas Region

Colby Brown

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A Transferrable Simulation-based Planning Tool for Calculating Complete Roadway Maintenance Project Impact Costs

Jeffrey LaMondia

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Session Description
This session is an interesting set of presentations on non-traditional uses of travel demand models. The first presentation describes the combined use of strategic planning modeling tools and performance-based planning to provide MPOs and cities valuable and cost-effective transportation planning to inform long range planning and transition toward greater sustainability and more resilient transportation infrastructure. The second presentation describes an alternative approach to demographic forecasting based upon nationally available bid-rent functions estimated by the author, which can easily be transferred to any county in the USA and used to translate residential land use (i.e., housing units by type) into household demographics for future scenarios. The final presentation of this session will demonstrate an easy-to-use transferrable excel tool that calculates roadway maintenance and rehabilitation costs based on site specific characteristics for practitioners to use in preplanning, project scheduling, and cost estimations. The tool uses a Monte-Carlo simulation to generate a synthetic population of traffic and driver characteristics that pass through a work zone as well as their choices and likely behaviors.

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